hobbish
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
rustic; characteristic of a hob or yokel
Example Sentences
- "Their Notions Machiavellian, Hobbish, / Draw Multitudes, because they’re Mobbish"
- "[…] the Preacher (tho’ a celebrated Divine of our Church, whose Principles are entirely Monarchical) has freely asserted several Hobbish Notions, and told us, that Democracy is of equal esteem with Monarchy, that Succession is a Jest, that all Forms of Government are in their own Nature mutable, and may be altered, or quite rescinded, as the Power in beginning shall think fit."
- "But I believe his Toryism to have been a natural emanation of his Hobbish infidelity, though in this age when infidelity affects democracy, and blackguards affect infidelity, this may sound like a paradox."
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Inflected Forms
more hobbish (comparative)
most hobbish (superlative)